Category: <span>Funding</span>

JSPS Postdoc Fellowship Call for Humanities and Social Sciences

Application Deadline: 10 Dec 2025 This fellowship is an opportunity for those in our Environmental Biotechnology and Social Sciences WG (EBSS WG), and for other EBNet members with an interest in social sciences or other arts and humanities aspects. It allows researchers based outside Japan to conduct collaborative work with …

UK-Ukraine Horizon Europe Initiative: project ideas available now

The next phase of the UK–Ukraine Horizon Europe collaboration initiative is now open. Following a nationwide call, Ukrainian universities have submitted project ideas designed to foster academic cooperation, strengthen research partnerships, and stimulate innovation exchange with UK higher education institutions. These ideas are a milestone in joint efforts to build …

Horizon Europe ERA 2026 – info and online brokerage events

Dates: 11 and 17 Dec 2025, online On 11 Dec 2025 an online European Commission Info Day will present the topics in the Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area (WIDERA) Work Programme 2026-2027.  Call types will include both Coordination & Support and Research & Innovation actions. On 17 …

BBSRC Standard Research Grants – closing 14 Jan 2026

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is inviting applications for funding to support excellent investigator-led research across the breadth of its scientific remit.  Applicants are encouraged to consider the relevance of the proposed work in line with the long-term research and innovation priorities set out in BBSRC’s strategic …

Mid-range equipment for biosciences research: ALERT 2025

Closing date: 20 Jan 2026 16:00 UK The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is inviting applications for funding to purchase mid-range equipment for research in areas across its scientific remit through ALERT 2025. The funding is intended to provide: equipment that will be widely used and underpins capability …

BBSRC New Investigator Award – don’t miss!

Closing date: 14 Jan 2026 16:00 UK The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is inviting applications for funding to support excellent new investigator-led research across the breadth of its scientific remit. This scheme is designed primarily to assist newly employed university lecturers, researchers (at a level equivalent to …

BBSRC Pioneer Awards 2025-6 stage 1 – deadline 19 Nov 2025

Registration deadline (stage 1): 19 Nov 2025 16:00 UK BBSRC’s Pioneer Awards provide funding to pursue early-stage bioscience discovery research. Applications should open novel adventurous research avenues with the potential to transform the fundamental understanding of living systems. Projects must: be early-stage fundamental bioscience lacking preliminary data explore visionary and …

Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowships – closing 29 Jan 2026

The Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowships are intended to assist senior researchers who have retired or partially retired from an academic post to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication The primary aim of the scheme is to support the facilitation, integration or completion of the applicant’s own …

Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships – closes 1 May 2026

The Leverhulme Trust‘s Visiting Professorship scheme is for UK institutions to invite an eminent senior professor from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area in the UK. Priority will be given to new or recent collaborations …

Royal Commission fellowships – call closing 13 Jan 2026

The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 awards a total of around 35 postgraduate Fellowships and Scholarships a year, for advanced study and research in science, engineering, the built environment and design. It also makes a small number of Special Awards to support projects aligned with its overall goals. …

NERC Large Grants – Outlines call now open

Closing date: 26 Feb 2026 The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is inviting outline applications for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big environmental science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research. Multi and interdisciplinary research delivered by collaborative teams is welcomed, as long …

Horizon Water4All 2025 Joint Transnational Call

Submission deadline: 13 Nov 2025 The Horizon Europe Partnership Water4All has launched its next call for proposals under the theme ‘Water and Health’. UK participants are welcome. The call aims to support research and innovation projects addressing key challenges related to the link between water and human health, including water …

Faraday Discovery Fellowships – Accelerated International Route

Round 2 and 3 closing dates: 25 Nov 2025, 25 Feb 2026 The Royal Society‘s Faraday Discovery Fellowships are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The Accelerated International Route, established in 2025, is intended for outstanding international researchers nominated by their UK …

RS Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship – closing 12 Nov 2025

The Royal Society‘s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship aims seeks to provide opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. Preference will be given to candidates who, …